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Problem statement: In order to edit a rubric attached to multiple assignments, you have to delink the rubric to achieve a 1-to-1 ratio between the assignment and rubric. Then, you can edit the rubric....

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Problem statement: When Submission Comment messages are received in our institutional inbox and faculty respond, Canvas copies the entire message (including the original question/comment from the stud...

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Problem statement: I have 30+ discussions that I monitor in the one Course. I currently close each for commenting at 4pm and re-open for commenting at 8am each school day. The reason for the discussio...

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Problem statement: Using Regular Expression in Fill in the Blank questions is relatively new and not every user knows what the Regular Expression will mean when put into a quiz (for example, for a stu...

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Problem statement: According to Canvas documentation, quizzes are brought in to a new course space with their source status intact. This means that if it was originally "published" the quiz will be pu...

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Problem statement: Currently the provisioning report is "all or none" and it has to be manipulated upon receipt to stratify by course role, enrollment status, etc., etc. Proposed solution: Add additi...

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Problem statement: Let's say a student has 6 messages in their Canvas inbox, one from each teacher scheduling a zoom meeting. The student was already told by their teachers that there will be a Zoom m...

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Problem statement: As I continue to develop my courses, I'm using question banks more and more. There are lots of issues with the functionality of these, but I'll focus on one here: the feedback box, ...

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Problem statement: At this time, Admin users do not have a full view access of all ePortfolios within the networks that they administer. In cases where a user has set their account to private, or a pa...

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Problem statement: Currently, we cannot enable Feature Options at only the sub-account level. After the disastrous rollout of New Quizzes we would like the option to enable Feature Options at only a s...

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Problem statement: I've been really encouraging students to use the assignment comments when they have a question about an assignment, and it's such a helpful way to be taken directly to their work to...

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Problem statement: Calendar appointments should receive the strikethrough formatting after the time has passed. They appear as unresolved items in the calendar even after they are over. Things like di...

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Problem statement: For fill-in-the-blank questions, from a bank (not sure if it happens when not from a bank), in New Quizzes, the submission details stacks up the correct/incorrect entries on the fir...

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Problem statement: I'm part of the online learning support team at a university and ran into an issue with an instructor recently that I feel could've been avoided if the right info was provided to th...

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Problem statement: New Quizzes now has the option to place the stimulus above it's related questions when building a quiz (this is done by selecting the "Questions below" orientation option when editi...

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Problem statement: Locking content in a Blueprint does not lock the quiz settings. In Classic Quizzes, locking content locks the RCE, questions, and question point values, but teachers can still edit ...

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Problem statement: I frequently teach different sections of the same courses, both simultaneously within the same term, and also across different terms. With so many students moving through these cour...

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Problem statement: Currently, Observers cannot see the Roll Call Attendance Assignment. When they click on the assignment they receive the message "You do not have permission to launch this tool." Man...

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I often duplicate a quiz from module to module to keep the format consistent. It would help if, when duplicating a published quiz, the published status was turned off in the duplication. I usually rem...

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Problem statement: This idea was posted before but was closed stating the functionality exists however, if you follow Canvas' documentation it breaks the functionality from working. Here are the curre...

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